Chapter 2- Claire?
(Michael)
It's the day after Claire died and I just feel like…. Shit. There are no words, phrases or metaphors that can liven up how bad I feel.
I am sitting in my car, in the garage preparing myself for the angry cries the bitch slaps and the fights…. And the crying, I can't handle making Eve cry. Even when it's not my fault. Ohh but it is my sub-conscious taunts me. 'No it's not' I whisper to myself. And climb out of my car into the house I know this is a battle I'm not gonna win.
I hear Shane rummaging around in the kitchen, I slowly open the door and lean gently on the door frame taking mental pictures of him not crying or hating me.
He suddenly turns around spots me and almost shits himself. "DUDE." He shouts halfway between pissed and scared.
"Sorry man." I say softly. But I know it's not for what I've done but for what I'm about to say.
"What's wrong man you look even paler than usual." He says jokingly but never too much so he's a friend first and a joker second.
"Listen man." I say quietly. So I have his attention. I do not want to repeat this too many times. "Claire's…." I swallow. "Claire's dead."
He just looks blankly at me looks down at his feet. "Jees... I'm sorry man."
"Wait why are you sorry?" I ask confusedly. He looks at me just as confused. "Claire's dead."
"Look dude… who the hell's Claire?" he asks me straight up no BS.
"What do you mean who's Claire, she's our freakin' roommate, and she's your bloody girlfriend." I yell at him I'm getting pissed off now.
"Look dude we don't have a roommate and I don't have a freakin' girlfriend." He yells back. But I am 10 times angrier.
"If this is some kind of twisted…" I start to say but he cuts me off.
"I am serious right now, if this is some kind of reaction to keep me from leaving…." But I am the one to cut him off this time.
"Wait your leaving?" I ask in a disbelieved voice.
He sighs. "Yes dude we've been talking about it for months I'm leaving and there's nothing you can do about it."
"But…" I say in a small voice. I have no clue what's going on, I feel like I'm losing my mind here.
Suddenly Eve barges in. "Ok what the hell is going on here." She looks from me to Shane.
Shane answers first. "Ask your demented boyfriend." He grumbles then walks out the room. She looks expectantly at me.
I look her straight in the eyes and ask her. "Do you remember Claire?"
She looks at me confused right in the eyes. "Claire who?"
I walk past her into the hall I know there is nothing I can say that will make her remember right now. What the hell happened? Why can't they remember her?
I run up to Claire's room. I open the door hurriedly.
The bedroom is squeaky clean with no memory of Claire being here at all it's like the room itself forgot that there was a person living in it. I rushed to the closet and inside it was bear no clothes, no nothing.
I hear Shane shout. "See ya!" and I ran downstairs to see him hugging eve.
"I'm goanna miss you idiot." She said in his ear. He pulled back gave her a grin then nodded at me and walked out of the door then closed it behind him.
Eve turned on me suddenly very angry. "Ok mister we need to have a serious conversation about this Claire thing."
The only thing I could think was how the f*** did this happen and is Eve jealous of Claire?
(Myrnin)
Michael has called a meeting which is very presumptuous I think but then again one of his best friends died so Amelie has decided to be lenient towards him. I was checking on my lab when I looked at my cloak realized it was late then ran at the portal into the Mayor's office.
Everyone was here even a nervous looking Michael. I swept into my seat with my usual grace. "Sorry for being late." I said in an emotionless voice. Everyone nodded at me then Amelie nodded at Michael to begin.
He looked scared but I suppose that's natural Oliver, Amelie, Richard and myself all spending our time listening to his 'important issue'.
"Well…." He began. "When I was home talking to Shane about Claire dying something weird happened." We all raised an eyebrow at him. Define 'weird' in Morganville. "He forgot her."
"What do you mean?" Amelie questioned.
"I mean he literally forgot her he didn't remember she was his girlfriend or even his housemate." We all looked upon him with sudden interest. "Eve didn't remember her and Shane is leaving like actually leaving I saw his car drive away out of town he's gone." We were all shocked, without Ada no-one will forget Morganville when they leave it they will always remember and therefore a threat. "And when I went over the Claire's parents' house they were busy packing and had no idea who I was never mind their only daughter."
We were all silent for a moment inside of our own thoughts. Then of all people the one who spoke out was Richard.
"There's one more thing that has been bugging me." We all turned our eyes to him. That guy must have some nerve 4 vamps staring at him and he isn't even bothered. Is he that trusting of our humanity? He looked straight at me. "If Ada is dead and she was running the town why is it still going? Why is everything still ticking? And how are the portals still working." We all stared at the door in which I had just entered.
I turned back to look at Michael and saw something I shouldn't be seeing.
(Michael)
How did I not notice that? How did none of us notice? Then I noticed no one else was looking at the door they were looking not at me but threw me at something behind me. I turned and there she was Claire as clear as day.
None of us spoke we all just stared at her, she had a shy smile as if she knows something we don't and she does god-damn. "What happened?" I asked her, the first one to speak.
She looked at me smile vanishing. I missed that smile. "I told you I made a choice; I didn't tell you my choices." We were all thrown.
"What were the choices?" I asked more softly this time now my shocks gone down. She looks down almost like she's ashamed.
A/N
Thanks for the reviews helped keep me going, keep them coming and I'll continue this thing.
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